r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/SiliconValleyIdiot • 2d ago
Indian-American Trumpies find out their side hates brown people
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u/TheRealEkimsnomlas 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ok, some of this is straight up Captain Obvious quotes but anyway...
Anyone who thinks it is "interesting to see" racism "coming out of the woodwork" from the right needs to rethink the bubble they live in. Perhaps also consider the totality instead of just how things affect themselves for a change? One-issue vote against "meritocracy" has condemned millions of people in the same racial demo- brown people of origins outside the nativist anglo dome- to a world of hurt and probably are endangering themselves to boot.
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u/ClumsyZebra80 2d ago
Pardon me, did she not see how they all treated Vance’s INDIAN WIFE. He had to basically beg them all to stop in an interview. And yet this lady is somehow special and they are all going to respect her? GTFOH
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u/Loggerdon 2d ago edited 2d ago
And Harris is an Indian American. She offhand refers to her as a DEI hire, even though she was a top prosecutor, the former AG of California (the most powerful state in the union) and the VP.
Edit: And a US Senator
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u/SharpCookie232 2d ago
How many of the people who know her think of her as a DEI hire? But that literally never occurs to her. Sometimes people are smart but not too bright.
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u/Tsobe_RK 2d ago
No but shes obviously one of the good ones, its obvious because.... ehm... I dont even know man.
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u/AnotherRTFan 1d ago
She probably thinks she is a good one because she is from a higher caste system
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u/Suzume_Chikahisa 2d ago
One can't be be smart, a good person and a fascist at the same time.
If you are a good person and a fascist you are not smart.
if you are smart and a fascist you are not a good person,
If you are smart and a good person you are not a fascist.
I'm pretty sure this lady is neither smart nor a good person if she truly thinks that the racist, fascist, legacy billionaire (?) was the meritocratic, competent choice.
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u/gdsmithtx 2d ago
I’ve worked for more than 30 years with hundreds of engineers, many of them PhDs . Some of the smartest motherfuckers I know are also some of the dumbest motherfuckers I know.
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u/Master_Taro_3849 1d ago
Ikr? Competence and even brilliance in one area is no guarantee of overall good sense. I once worked in a company where there was a programmer so talented that the boss paid him more than he paid himself. But this guy couldn’t figure out the copier.
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u/gunthersmustache 1d ago
I worked as a graphic designer at a business school. One of the worst professors to deal with was the head of the marketing department. She had a PhD but never actually worked in marketing. She only did research. So she had no idea how to work with a designer, knew nothing about print production, and had terrible branding. And yet she was an "expert."
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u/cg12983 1d ago
I used to work with doctors, who could be really clueless, gullible mofos about anything other than medicine. Especially politics.
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u/CoffeeTeaPeonies 2d ago
Self awareness is hhhhhaaaaarrrddddd (say that like MonaLisa Saperstein/Tammy)
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u/mysixthredditaccount 2d ago
Some people have "book smarts" and that's it. Knowing how to ace a test and be a productive worker for your employer. Not necessarily being smart or intelligent. Not wise, for sure. Kind of fitting that she keeps mentioning meritocracy.
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u/SHC606 2d ago
It's because Apoorva sees her as Black, not Indian. It's so exhausting.
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u/SciFiNut91 2d ago
Which is dumb, especially considering her name. I remember hearing her name for the first time and wondering why a black woman had an obviously Indian name. Found out about her heritage - to her credit, she did try to get Indian Americans to support her, but wouldn't be surprised if the numbers showed low support.
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u/Similar_Flamingo4606 1d ago
Yeah a lot of Indians are anti-Black.
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u/occasionalpart 1d ago
They cling to the caste system because they love racism and stratification, so...
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u/MaisieDay 2d ago edited 2d ago
To be fair, she explicitly stated that she and Kamala "share" the same roots. Which maybe makes it worse, idk.
Edit: typo
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u/JBWentworth_ 2d ago
I think caste enters the discussion at this point. If Kamala’s father was not of the appropriate caste, Apoorva would never vote for her.
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u/baconcheesecakesauce 1d ago
Anti Blackness is deeply rooted in South Asian cultures. Source: Indian in-laws Getting married to my husband was a wild ride.
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u/Dogbuysvan 2d ago
How much would it infuriate people if California started to refer to themselves as the most powerful state during regular discourse?
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u/HippyGrrrl 2d ago edited 2d ago
Seventh largest economy in the world
Update, fourth!
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u/Maximum_Active9209 2d ago
DEI is just the n-word for people who want to say the n-word but still come across as good people.
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u/Due-Message8445 1d ago
Every position that Harris has had in her life. From DA to AG to Senator and finally VP. She was ELECTED TO. Pisses me off that DEI hire BS.
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u/wishforagreatmistake 2d ago
Yup, the way she and Vivek Ramaswamy were treated by their own (while having all the same garbage beliefs) really said it all. No matter how sincere your beliefs are and how much success you've had in your career, they might, might grudgingly tolerate you to your face because they need your money and connections, but they still think you're a cow-worshipping heathen who asks for bobs and vagen and shits in the street after eating unhygienic street food.
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u/det8924 2d ago
A lot of minorities think because the white people they interact with aren’t overtly racist towards them that any minority complaining about racism or negative racial experiences is lying or just one of the bad ones.
They also filter out the racism coming from Trump and his supporters as just a few bad apples or out of context in order to contort their personal experiences into a reality they want to believe in
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u/livinginfutureworld 2d ago
No body likes Vance. The people that voted for Trump don't like him either.
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u/Capable_Stranger9885 2d ago
Peter Thiel likes Vance.
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u/typhoidtimmy 2d ago
I too like furniture that feels comfortable when I prop my feet up on it…
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u/QuestionableIdeas 2d ago
Maybe Thiel got him to fuck the couch so he could get some ottomans?
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u/SharpCookie232 2d ago
Vance is his good little boy.
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u/Capable_Stranger9885 2d ago edited 2d ago
Elon is right now very flashy with showing off his paid for President of the United States toy. When a --26th-- 25th Amendment event happens, he's gonna get schooled by Thiel.
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u/kevinmitchell63 2d ago
An event where 18-year-olds get to vote? You mean an election?
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u/iamfanboytoo 2d ago
JD Vance Ate My Dog is hilarious, and I sincerely wish that it had became culturally irrelevant in November instead of sticking around for years.
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u/Cosmicshimmer 2d ago
Political pick me. It doesn’t work like that though, as they’re finding out.
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u/bystander1981 2d ago
same with Latinos and how Trump "supports their values" -- in what universe? and the idiots who didn't vote for Kamala because of Gaza -- FFS
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u/Burgerkingsucks 2d ago
The fact that Republican Indian immigrants exist blows my mind.
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u/mysixthredditaccount 2d ago
Many have small businesses or family/friends with small businesses. And for some reason, they believe that Trump is pro small business. They believe that Trump will make them money. And as it goes for most humans, greed trumps all.
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u/Friendly_Nature2699 2d ago
It was always "fuck you, Brownie". Not sure why they don't see that, as smart as they are (or think they are).
And where the fuck do they see a "meritocracy" at in America? Most of our celebs are nepo babies. The two biggest players - Trump and Leon - inherited their money from racists who took advantage of a biased system.
I know what the American dream was supposed to be, but everyone woke up from that shit about 40 years ago.
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u/SiliconValleyIdiot 2d ago
It's a common attitude amongst the Indian / Asian American professional upper middle class.
Many of them believe they were rewarded because they were the rule following "good immigrants" so they think the racist chuds in the MAGA movement will welcome them with open arms.
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u/Nephelus 2d ago
Trump was a millionaire at 8 years old. "Meritocracy" my ass.
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u/Friendly_Nature2699 2d ago
And worth noting, a lot of financial experts have said had he just smartly invested his money, he'd have a lot richer than he was thanks to his failed, grifty pet projects.
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u/Nephelus 2d ago
He even bankrupted a casino. A place where people come to give away their money and go home emptyhanded. How does that happen?
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u/lesterbottomley 2d ago
I'm guessing not a lot left after paying out his Russian overlords/financiers.
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u/Key-Satisfaction4967 2d ago
The house is SUPPOSED to win! People walk in knowing this and trump still ran it into the ground!
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u/Anal_Herschiser 2d ago
It was always "fuck you, Brownie".
The Girl Scouts and their cookie empire have always been cutthroat af.
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u/dewey-defeats-truman 2d ago
The thing about "high-caste" Indian immigrants beliefs (specifically those who buy into the whole caste thing) is that they believe that being born high-caste is a reward for the merit of their previous life. You can't argue that people's birth circumstances aren't meritocratic because they actually believe it to be so.
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u/AlternativeAcademia 2d ago
And in the US we have puritan values that say if you are righteous and favored by god it will show up as earthly blessings, so of course if you’re rich and successful you deserve because you’re such a great person!
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u/Jensen0451 2d ago
It was the 'slowly' part of that comment that really got me. They've all but been wearing their klan hoods out in the open now. There's nothing 'slow' about any of this anymore.
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u/dak4f2 2d ago
She meant towards Indians. She thought they were only racist against Latin Americans and black people.
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u/galaapplehound 2d ago
That's 100% it. She thought that she was part of the "good immigrant" group. Her stupid ass didn't even think that that was all bullshit made to buy their support but once they stop being useful they're just brown people.
Tokens get spent.
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u/Key-Satisfaction4967 2d ago
Tokens get spent! Wow, may I use the phrase?
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u/galaapplehound 2d ago
I didn't come up with it but yeah, it's been around for a while.
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u/LadyDomme7 2d ago
No need for hoods anymore - they aren’t ashamed if people outside of their families know who they are.
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u/LadyDomme7 2d ago
No need for hoods anymore - they aren’t ashamed if people outside of their families know who they are.
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u/Present_Confection83 2d ago
Racism against Black people? Totally fine with her
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u/livinginfutureworld 2d ago
Racism against Black people?
Why I never! This must be the first time ever that right wingers have shown themselves to be racist pricks! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
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u/slayden70 2d ago
The "I got mine, fuck everyone else" attitude does align her with the right wing, tbh.
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u/SharpCookie232 2d ago
That's "meritocracy". All the systemic racism stemming from our history of slavery and discrimination doesn't exist for her.
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u/Top_Put1541 2d ago
Indian immigrants, who have been doing their damndest to perpetuate the caste system in every country they emigrate to, are the last people who can claim to be all about meritocracy.
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u/sndtrb89 2d ago
its like saying french fry smells are coming out of the woodwork inside of a mcdonalds.
its a fucking mcdonalds. it smells like french fries.
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u/olderthanbefore 2d ago
I like quoting Radiohead lyrics
~ you will be first against the wall~
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u/dslamngu 2d ago
I work in Silicon Valley. I’ve talked to folks of S Asian and SEA descent who have honestly told me that they’ve never experienced racism in person growing up in California. Meanwhile I grew up as an American-born person of SEA descent in other places in the US and got the expected slurs and “ching chong” and go back to your country stuff from poor white kids, so that was shocking to hear. If you meet an Indian person who says they haven’t experienced racism, believe them. They might be high-caste and coming from a family that left an Indian system that they believe advantages backward-caste Indians, and are living in a protective high-caste tight-knit Indian community in the US that conflates class with merit.
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u/darkenedgy 2d ago
Can confirm, my parents said they'd experienced racism and I was confused for years as a light skinned Indian with an American accent. Obviously I figured it out later, but there's a lot of people who can't differentiate between their booksmarts and reality.
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u/elderlybrain 2d ago
Right wing Indians are the single biggest ladder pullers in any society. See Britain with suella braverman or priti Patel.
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u/Conscious-Pick8002 2d ago
It's delusional of the highest order that they think that white Republicans, especially the racists one will choose them 1st and prefer them because of "shared values" and "merit". Jokes on them.
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u/j____b____ 2d ago
Nothing says meritocracy like appointing sycophants and relatives to leadership positions. Sorry to break it to you but you voted for a kakistocracy.
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u/caffeinquest 2d ago
Software engineer. They got hired because someone was told to care about DEI.
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u/Chumlee1917 2d ago
Just wait till President Elon tries to reimpose Segregation
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u/jon_hendry 2d ago
He prefers to call it apartheid
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u/willclerkforfood 2d ago
He’s going to make First Lady Trump rename Mar-a-lago to Sun City
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u/thatirishguyyyyy 2d ago
It will never be about segregating Americans by race again.
This will be about segregating Americans by class.When it's based on class, it's typically referred to as economic segregation or class segregation. It involves the division of society into different areas, neighborhoods, or communities based on income, wealth, or social status.
While the specifics differ, the underlying concept of separating groups remains the same.
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u/RedshiftSinger 2d ago
“I love meritocracy, that’s why I voted for the unqualified rich white guy promising to make everything easy for mediocre white guys instead of the hyperqualified woman promising to give everyone a fair chance to succeed”.
THE IRONY
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u/reefersutherland91 2d ago
When immigrants complain about DEI they are just saying they are immigrants that also hate black people
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u/volkerbaII 2d ago
It's not even just black people. There are Mexican immigrants that hate on Mexican immigrants. Asian immigrants that hate on other Asian immigrants. They get all caught up in these narratives of who's a good immigrant and who's a bad immigrant, that they completely miss the fact that the conservative whites running the show don't want ANY of them here.
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u/SiliconValleyIdiot 2d ago
Yup! This is pretty much it.
I grew up among the Indian American professional upper middle class. Almost every single one of them had a chip on their shoulder about "coming here with nothing and becoming successful".
They all think they were rewarded because they were the "good immigrants who follow the rules", contrasting it with the "illegals who jumped the queue" or "African Americans who commit crimes".
In the last 8 years I've gotten into it with a lot of them about how every single right we get to enjoy as minorities were gained from the blood, sweat and tears of Black and Latino civil rights and labor rights activists.
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u/EffectiveEconomics 2d ago
Chefs kiss from her timeline:
Apoorva Govindu/Appyg99
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13 years in America, still on a visa. Which party is going to make it easy for *legal* immigrants from India get at least a residency permit faster?126
u/MmeQcat 2d ago
Spoiler alert: it's not the party talking about denaturalizing people and ending birthright citizenship.
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u/SanityPlanet 2d ago
If she can't figure out something so utterly basic, what does she really have to offer our country that makes her think she deserves to stay over other people?
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u/FLmom67 2d ago
Wtaf did she not understand about “deporting immigrants from Day 1”?! Do these tech people consume too much caffeine/ Adderrall/ ketamine and it’s rotted their brains like it’s done to Elon? I bet she goes around spouting “don’t overthink it!” to anyone with qualms. 🤦♀️
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u/Top_Put1541 2d ago
A lot of techies are high on the idea that the tech industry is full of smarties who are rich, therefore that fulfills the definition of meritocracy, therefore everything good that’s ever happened is because they are smarter and more talented and hard working than anyone else in any other field.
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u/BlokeInTheMountains 2d ago
The dopamine released by alternating outrage and telling people they are better than some other group is the most addictive substance known to man.
Unfortunately some have weaponized it.
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u/Pylgrim 2d ago
Yeah, the key word here is "meritocracy". This woman, and everybody like her, was clearly privileged to an extent and seized the opportunities others don't have. Now, she believes herself their better and worthy to be with "the winners".
She's a conservative because she shares the main conservative "value": to improve one's station even if it means making sure that others are worse off to be elevated in comparison. Unfortunately for her, nobody told her that the other main conservative aspect is to create ingroups based on unchangeable traits such as race, gender, or nationality.
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u/GF_baker_2024 2d ago
Black people, those other brown people, and the LBGTQ+ community. They're afraid that their kids will be forced to undergo transgender surgery at school.
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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 2d ago
It's specifically "DEI". Even though actual DEI departments tend to do the sexual harassment and sex discrimination sensitivity trainings, they're just using as code for the N word.
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u/Fun_Client_6232 2d ago
And they never want to recognize that it was black people during the Civil Rights movement/legislation that made it possible for them to even be here and prosper.
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u/Hot-Sauce-P-Hole 2d ago
A lot of it is also posturing because they're "macho" men who want to think they're "self-made," and don't want to deal with the "humiliation" of being thankful for help.
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u/CommitteeOld9540 2d ago
Many of them say the same white supremacists talking points about black americans and come to their neighborhoods to treat them poorly while collecting the money.
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u/MySweetLordBuckley 2d ago
Dear every non-European immigrant or child of one born in the US,
MAGA is the in-group; YOU are in the out-group. For MAGA, your equality feels like oppression. The sometimes not so quiet part is, MAGA is for white people and a pepper's dash of honorary "non-Whites" who are related to white people, or those who have more money than you will ever have.
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u/Bovronius 2d ago
Often time those honorary ones are just temporarily useful consumables.
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u/DarkPoet333 2d ago
We warned you. In fact, we all literally warned you word for word. Fuck. Off.
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u/turkeypants 2d ago
And why would they even need warning? They have eyes, ears, and brains - what went wrong there? This is so easy, it's all so easy and immediately obvious and thinking people somehow still get it completely backwards. It makes no sense.
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u/StarintheShadows 2d ago
Well saying they have brains is debatable. They’d have to get an MRI to confirm that but unfortunately their insurance denied them one because being born with no brain is a preexisting condition.
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u/The_Super_D 2d ago
Meritocracy is one of the biggest lies peddled by the right. It's sad she bought into it.
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u/bolt_in_blue 2d ago
Most Indians in the US come from upper castes and are used to being treated as royalty. Many of them came here relatively wealthy and work high wage jobs while also living in fairly insular communities. Many of them are used to a world with levels and are ok with it, at least on some level, as long as they're on top.
I think a lot of them would be absolutely shocked if they had to spend a month living in a truly rural area in the US.
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u/inbetween-genders 2d ago
So basically “I’m one of the good ones” BS.
Leopard: “Nom nom nom nom”
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u/BreadandCirce 2d ago
Maybe they should stop saying that. It's basically advertising that their faces be good eatin' if you're a big cat of refined tastes
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u/EmmalouEsq 2d ago
That's exactly what it is. Upper caste people come here thinking they're one of the good ones (because back in India they are) and then get all Pikachu face when they realize the lowest socio economic level white folks think of them as untouchables. It's interesting to them because they just assumed racism didn't apply to them.
Most likely racists have been speaking with them peppered with dog whistles they can't understand, or they think aren't directed at them, but are.
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u/Napalmeon 2d ago
You see this exact same thing with a lot of Latinos who think that because they are fair skinned enough to pass for "white" in Latin America that they will be given the same treatment in the States. But as soon as some of these conservative white folks see a Hispanic surname, then all of a sudden they are put in the same category as insert slur ______.
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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 2d ago
Yeah they don't like it when they find out they look like N-words in the dark to dirty cops cruising for trouble.
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u/blueva703 2d ago
Around 10 years ago, an Indian man was severely beaten by the police after someone called them about a strange black man in their neighborhood. I can’t remember which state it happened.
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u/JessieColt 2d ago
Some people in California had been pushing to ban caste discrimination because many Indians, Nepalese, and immigrants from those regions are bringing their own brands of discrimination with them to the US.
They pretend they want to escape to a better life by coming to the US yet they bring their own brand of bullshit with them.
Then they have the audacity to be shocked when they find out, as you said, that they are treated like the waste scum on the bottom of the barrel, just as they did and do to others that they have spent their lives looking down on in their own countries and communities.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/caste-discrimination-california/
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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 2d ago
They actually do caste discrimination in the US, in fact some wealthy high caste Indian Americans are VERY angry that low caste South Asian immigrants are now pushing for caste discrimination action in places like California.
There have been some newspaper articles about this in the last 2 years, I believe.
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u/bolt_in_blue 2d ago
100%.
Indian on Indian discrimination is the only blatant discriminatory behavior I’ve seen (and reported to HR) in my entire career. It was amazing how someone who is a hard worker and has been great to me flipped the second they got signals that the other person was from the wrong group.
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u/Jensen0451 2d ago
Someone better let her know that 'meritocracy' is automatically anything that benefits them, and 'DEI' is automatically anything that doesn't.
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u/Apple-Dust 2d ago
Also, if we're talking about a meritocracy without safety nets, why the fuck wouldn't you be trying to give yourself unfair advantages and stop everyone below you from climbing the ladder? Like I'm going to voluntarily go live under a bridge just because you're 10% better at my job so it's "fair" that you take it?
That's what these dumbasses don't seem to grasp - there will never be meritocracy unless there are mechanisms to catch the people when they fall. Sabotaging other people from succeeding is a hell of a lot easier than becoming the best and staying there.
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u/PersonalPromenade 2d ago edited 2d ago
Being an Indian, I always see these people being oblivious and stupid.
1) Like Hasan Minhaj said, “we’re practical”. So as long as a politician helps these people get money and status, they’re willing to bear other social costs. They don’t care about integration and assimilation, they’d rather have money and a good position.
2) Most immigrants in the US are ultra-privileged Indians who see themselves at par with white Americans (because they consider their social standing equitable, with the only difference being their skin colour. Hence the term “coconut desis”; brown on the outside, white on the inside.) So they see themselves “on the same side” as white Americans. Which hurts the heads of Indians from India, and probably POCs in the US.
3) They think that being a “law abiding, and good community” will make them an exception. And the US has honestly rewarded the Indian diaspora a lot. So many I know who led average/below average lives in India, immigrated to the US are now leading successful lives with large mansions, amazing educational opportunities for their kids, and a lot more money in their banks. They think the party won’t end, and they’re not a part of the same club as “other minorities” with worse stereotypes attached to them. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
4) Unfortunately many indians who are privileged, are used to using their social capital against others, even going so far as to be casteist, racist, etc. But since they’re still “minorities”, they get away with it most of the times. Which is just bullshit. But they’ll certainly call others out if they face the same behaviour.
But of course, not everyone is the same.
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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 2d ago
Part of the reason they get so rich in the US is because of the far lower level of secular corruption as compared to Asian countries, but Trump is specifically exactly the person to make our slowly rising corruption problems in the US worse. So... good luck with that, assholes.
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u/octnoir 2d ago
Republican Supporters like these always seem to have very short and very selective memories.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a number of reprisal attacks were carried out on Sikh communities, not Muslims, by Islamaphobes who believed that Sikhs were Muslims.
Indeed, a 2013 study published by Stanford Peace Innovation Lab found that Americans associated turbans with bin Laden and that 49 percent of Americans believed that Sikhism was a sect of Islam. Ironically, the vast majority of people who wear turbans in the United States are Sikh. But, through racial and religious heuristics, too many Americans often misidentify Sikhs as Muslims and, because of their prejudice, as terrorists.
And the through line to today, Harmeet Dhillon gave a speech and led a prayer at the RNC 2024. Over which she was attacked because 'she is Muslim'
You are brown. Therefore you are Middle East. Therefore you are Muslim. Therefore you are a terrorist.
Bleaching your skin to be whiter doesn't help. Looking whiter doesn't help. Marrying white doesn't help. Talking like a white doesn't help. Being rich like a white doesn't help. Supporting whites doesn't help.
It literally does not matter that entire ethnic and religious and national groups within South Asia can be extremely diverse, across a broad spectrum, and have been competing with each other, and the groups as diverse as Americans to British. Under this American Capitalist White Supremacist System, you are Brown, we are White.
You'll always be on a leash, you'll never be invited to the club, and even if you are invited to the club you'll never really be accepted and it is always transactional and even then you are a stone's throw away from being lobbed to the wolves.
I feel like the 2024 election was defined primarily by so many out-groups deluding to themselves that they are in the in-group.
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u/Wildheartpetals 2d ago
For context- in India the upper castes use "meritocracy" to demean the other castes and portray them as undesirable and undeserving of affirmative action in the form of reservations. Even though the upper castes are 10-15% of the population they have the majority share of wealth and almost completely occupy the upper echelons of bureaucracy, political and corporate sectors.
Most people who move abroad are upper castes(because only they can afford to move out of the country). And read about how indian Americans are resisting laws against caste discrimination.
These people are the fascist supporters in their home countries.
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u/saltyourhash 1d ago
So they perpetuate the same bullshit perpetuated here: "I worked hard for this".
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u/Dense-Ad-5780 2d ago
Headline: person who voted for the racist candidate surprised by subsequent racism.
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u/Obaddies 2d ago
Is the meritocracy in the room with us right now? To think that America is a meritocracy because the Fanta fascist can’t fail hard enough to make himself poor while teachers are struggling to make ends meet is laughable.
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u/Professional-End2722 2d ago
Jews for Hitler!
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u/ThoughtsAndBears342 2d ago
Jews for Hitler actually was a thing in Nazi Germany. They thought that if they emphasized that they were Germans first and Jews second they’d be spared. Sadly and predictably, they weren’t.
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u/Lex_Innokenti 2d ago
Oh no, you're wrong there - they actually did pretty well for themselves >! right up to being loaded onto the trains, anyway !<
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u/Different-Tea2322 2d ago
Is it racist to speculate that these people have very low IQs that they didn't see this shit coming?
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u/GiovanniElliston 2d ago
Not in the slightest. It's actually just an accurate observation of the information present.
In 2016 it was entirely possible for well reasoned and intelligent people to 'make a mistake' and vote for Trump. There's a strong argument they were just duped in one way or another.
But in 2024? Eight fucking years later? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck YOU.
They either knew exactly what they were voting for and love it or they're genuinely so stupid I don't know how they functionally pull breath into their body. And there's no point in pretending any other options exist.
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u/MountainChick2213 2d ago
Trump said it himself, he loves the uneducated. The info was there, they just chose not to listen.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 2d ago
*the poorly-educated
The uneducated are the non-voters. Trump's support comes from the poorly educated, people that listen to Faux/Newsmax/OAN or get their "news" from social media.
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u/Daimakku1 2d ago
It's easy to figure out who's stupid and who's not.
Do they vote Republican and they're wealthy? Likely not stupid (just selfish).
Do they vote Republican and they're not rich? Stupid.
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u/DarkCrawler_901 2d ago
No, just low morals that allow them to ignore injustice until it touches them.
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u/winterbird 2d ago
Except that the side she voted for doesn't believe in meritocracy, unless you count skin tone as merit.
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u/SharpCookie232 2d ago
Trump is the poster child for the priviledge that inherited wealth and being a white man bring. There's no way he would have gotten in to Penn or run/owned a company without his family's money. Musk is smarter, but also coasting on generational wealth and white priviledge. These guys hate meritocracy. Suck-ups like Vivek and this rube think they can worm their way in, but it isn't happening.
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u/inthepocket23 2d ago
Lol woodwork. And how often does a south asian immigrant have the chance to elect an extremely qualified candidate who also happens to be south asian? So many ppl trying to prove that they are not like everyone else and just want to be different and dont see what its costing. Idiocy.
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u/volkerbaII 2d ago
It was so sad watching minorities get sucked into the MAGA talking points. I grew up in a white rural town, so I knew better. They are so racist, they would be racist towards the darkest white kids if they didn't have a minority to be racist towards. The Republican party will never do anything more than token gestures to minorities. They serve their base which is still very racist.
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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 2d ago
So true-- it wasn't very long ago that Greek and Sicilian people used to be stigmatized, and ironic too because some Greek Americans can be pretty fucking racist. Being super racist doesn't get you into WASP club, my friends.
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u/BringBackAoE 2d ago
She thought Trump would deliver meritocracy?!?
Is she totally unfamiliar with US history?!? The White Supremacy that has been the core of US conservatives since the founding of this nation until present?!?
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u/Merreck1983 2d ago
"The DEI cult"
Hey bub, I hate to break it to you, but here in America that "DEI cult" is likely the main reason you have your job instead of some incompetent white frat boy with a well-connected family.
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u/endmysuffering9912 2d ago
These same indians complaining are only complaining about racism against them.they willl gladly shit on black folk to appear as one of the good ones.Hell,the amount of times ive gotten called slurs by them at the gas station would make david duke proud
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u/Barack_Odrama_007 2d ago
JD Vance had to tell his own base to stop being racist to his Indian wife.
They also called him a race traitor…..
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u/AthleteHistorical457 2d ago
I am a brownie and was not delusional enough to ever vote for Trump but I do have relatives that did and I no longer speak with them.
Asians believe in the concept of "model minority" and think white people will accept them, they never will. You just can't fix stupid.
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u/Adorable_Ad6045 2d ago
Anyone know about her origins? I’ll bet anything she comes from a well to do Brahmin family, giving her an un-earned advantage over darker folks in the Indian caste system.
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u/SiliconValleyIdiot 2d ago
This combination of first and last name is a stereotypical south indian Brahmin name.
I would also make that bet.
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u/Crazyriskman 2d ago
By what measure does this person think Trump is competent?? Meritocracy sure, I am all for that. But by that measure, Kamala was orders of magnitude more qualified!
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u/FLmom67 2d ago
There are higher-caste Indian immigrants in the US discriminating against Indian-Americans of Dalit origin. Advocates are trying to get California to include caste discrimination as a protected status. I don’t know this woman’s background—or Usha Vance’s—but this seems to me like it could be a case of “but in my home country I’m top dog. You shouldn’t discriminate against ME!”
Trump voters universally think they are Special Cases. Narcissism? Is that what they all share? The same is happening to Republican women who need abortions—“oh no! It’s OTHER women who should be forced to carry to term. Not ME or MY daughter!” It’s a litmus test at this point: “Do you think you’re specialer than evwebuddy else? Vote Trump!”
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u/broden89 2d ago
So she's pro-meritocracy and voted for the guy born with a silver spoon who for 50+ years only had a job because his dad gave him one??
Isn't Harris the living embodiment of meritocracy? Oh wait, it's only DEI when it's a Democrat.
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u/ChampionshipSad1809 2d ago
“I came here for the values”
“I voted against a woman”
“I voted for a convicted rapist and a known pedophile who is openly racist”
Yeah, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.
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u/m00nstruck1973 1d ago
Holy shit. As an Indian-American, I can’t fucking stand my people. I am so tired of arguing with other Indians about how little white racists think of them. Most Indians that were able to immigrate to the US come from the upper echelons of India, and they come here with all of their built-in racist, classist, casteist elitism and somehow think they’re part of the upper caste/class in the US. Most upper class Indians are also colonial apologists who think colonialism built up India. Bootlickers will always be bootlickers!
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u/RidetheSchlange 2d ago
This is hysterical because for years the southeast Asians of the US were trying to tell us all they weren't fascists, MAGAs,, Republicans, and so on. Meanwhile, they were all in all along and so trusted are they that there are several cabinet nominations going to them and Indians are scattered and don't want to engage about that absolute fact that fascists are finding kindred spirits in Indian-Americans.
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u/newfrontier58 2d ago
It’s exhausting. Ann Coulter literally told Vivek months ago that she would never vote for him due to his ethnicity, and that didn’t convince this person that the racism was already inherent. I would study this if the departments were not getting gutted to appease GOP politicians.
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u/hyrle 2d ago
It's funny how these people don't realize that what they call "DEI cults" is what turned America into a mertiocracy in the first place.
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u/SiliconValleyIdiot 2d ago
No no you see if it benefits ME it's a meritocracy. If it benefits those who I think beneath me it's DEI.
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u/Other_Dimension_89 2d ago
What a fucking idiot. Wants meritocracy then decides to vote against the person who had the most experience.
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u/Top_Care_1294 2d ago
Anyone who thinks meritocracy exists in any sort of usable form in the US is delusional.
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u/ratpH1nk 2d ago
"Slowly coming out of the woodwork" has to be the most willfullfully ignorant comment ever. My dude. They have been front and center for Trump since 2016.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
u/SiliconValleyIdiot, your post does fit the subreddit!